Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

11.20.09

This week (somewhere between emotional break down and mental sanity), I had time to make pumpkin spice cookies for my friends at work. These pumpkin cookies were SO good, I just had to share them with all of you.

PUMPKIN SPICE COOKIES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

1/2 teaspoon salt (I prefer Kosher)

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 1/2 cups white sugar

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2-3 cups confectioners’ sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

8 0z. Cream Cheese, room temperature

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a medium bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup of butter and white sugar. Add pumpkin, egg, and 2 teaspoons vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy. Mix in dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls; flatten slightly.

Bake for 15-18 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool cookies, then cover with cream cheese frosting

To Make frosting: Combine cream cheese, butter and vanilla - beat until smooth. Slowly add confectioners’ sugar to desired sweetness (i.e. if you want your frosting to be on the sweeter side, use 3 cups of sugar).

jen sherwood -If you are really in a hurry and don’t have much time, but want to make these yummy cookies all you need is a spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin. That’s it! I frosted them and took them to work a few weeks ago and everyone loved them!!

November 20, 2009 - 2:08 pm

camberley -I’ve made a pumpkin cookie recipe like that before very yummy!

November 23, 2009 - 10:49 am

Rebecca-Another great (very yummy sounding) recipe I will use! Thanks for sharing!

Welcome to Fancy House Road! My name is Camberley & this is where I love to share stories about my life as a wife & working mother to two little girls (2 and 3 months). In my free time, I love to spend time with my family, cook, DIY, decorate and organize.